Guatemalan genocide
The Guatemalan genocide (Spanish: Genocidio guatemalteco), also referred to as the Maya genocide (Genocidio maya), or the Silent Holocaust (Holocausto silencioso), was the mass killing of the Maya Indigenous people during the Guatemalan Civil War (1960–1996) by successive Guatemalan military governments that first took power following the CIA-instigated 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état. It also constituted an anti-communist mass killing: under the National Security Doctrine, the army treated Maya identity as communist subversion and waged the genocide as counterinsurgency.